Research toward "Science and Society" focused on the identification and study of the factors contributing to the improvement of quality of life. The studies cover areas such as science, education, health, environment and others. Special attention is paid to the issues of formation of the national innovation system, innovative ways to improve the development and growth of innovative potential. Examines the role and place of the innovation potential in the formation of geopolitical power center.

Sitting in a taxi, few people realize that really painted checkered car no relation to the taxi service has not. As the driver arrived at the order. But because in the event of an accident to compensation from the insurance company to the passenger to not count. While such accidents are, unfortunately, becoming more and more.

British intelligence Agency GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters, GCHQ) is facing serious problems with recruitment and retention of staff — namely, specialists in computer security. Now the demand for such personnel is especially high. In the report, GCHQ over the last fiscal year (pdf) stated that, in 2015-2016, the secret service has spent on cyber operations 24% of its budget is the biggest item of expenditure in the scouts. It is followed by fighting terrorism (counterterrorist operation) — 23% of the budget. That is, information security is spending more resources than the fight against terrorism. These are the realities of the 21st century.

Dark night, away from city lights, the stars of the milky Way seem innumerable. But from any point visible to the naked eye not more than 4500 stars. In our galaxy, they are 100 to 400 billion galaxies in the Universe, and even more. Out in the night sky not as many stars. However, even this number gives us a deep story... of drugs and medicines. The fact that the number of possible organic compounds with medicinal abilities exceeds the number of stars in the Universe by more than 30 orders of magnitude. And chemical configurations that are created by scientists from existing medicines, akin to the stars that we could see in the center of the city at night.

We make conclusions based on the usual judgment and evaluate each situation independently. This limits and prevents to achieve the goals. To consider problems from different points of view, you need a set of mental models.